telegraf

Energy monitoring device

One of IoT application for the smart home: electronic appliance energy monitoring. I used Sonoff PoW as the measuring and switching device. To be integrated only into our private network, we need to flash the firmware. I used Tasmota’s ESP8266 firmware (https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota) and followed the instruction given in the web (Disclaimer: you have to solder … Read moreEnergy monitoring device

Android sensors to Smart Home

Our Android phone is by default equipped with multiple sensors, e.g., accelerator sensors, magnetic field, photo light detector, noise level sensor, etc. I have an unused LG G4 which I turned into a sensor device. To convert the sensor readings into MQTT message, Sensor Node Pro is used. Telegraf is embedded to the MQTT server … Read moreAndroid sensors to Smart Home